This is a sticky issue. If a user seeks over and over again and their bandwidth is lower than the bitrate of the video then the connection will get more and more behind. This feature attempts to stop responding to the seek requests so the connectioin does not cause memory runnup server side. We currently do not have a way to flush the pending responses when this occurs. You can control the number of seeks that occur before this feature kicks in using the following Streams/Properties in conf/[application]/Application.xml: